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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 15 december 2017

Driver says Kylo Ren isn’t evil, he just thinks he’s right

By LINDSEY BAHR Jedi,” which hits theaters
AP Film Writer Friday, or even discussing
LOS ANGELES (AP) — He what Kylo Ren was think-
might have callously killed ing when he killed Han, or
his father Han Solo, but like when he battled Rey at the
all well-written “bad guys,” very end of the “The Force
Kylo Ren is the hero of his Awakens.”
own Star Wars story. “I don’t think I can say what
“He is someone who he saw (in Rey) but there is
doesn’t think of himself as something familiar that he
evil, but thinks of himself as sees that hopefully he wres-
right,” says Adam Driver, tles with in ‘The Last Jedi,’”
who reprises his role as the Driver says. “There is some-
conflicted Kylo Ren in “Star thing about thinking you’re
Wars: The Last Jedi.” on a singular journey and
“It’s definitely more ex- then kind of having your
citing to play because I faith questioned by some-
don’t think I know what thing new.”
pure evil is, nor does that The 34-year-old actor, who
seem to be something that had previously been best
sustains itself or is interest- known for his role on HBO’s
ing to watch,” Driver says. “Girls,” says his anonym-
“Watching people who ity has mostly gone away
feel kind of morally justified since joining the Star Wars
to behave the way they do galaxy but that it’s ok.
is in a way more unpredict- “Sometimes going places
able and dangerous be- just requires more plan-
cause there’s nothing that ning. But the scale of those This Dec. 14, 2016 file photo shows actor Adam Driver posing for a portrait in New York.
they won’t do to accom- movies, because they’re so Associated Press
plish their mission because multi-generational, or cross “But the kid part of it is for ally confused, like “Why is “I worry about them,” Driv-
they feel empowered in generational, the amount me the most fun: Seeing Kylo Ren wearing a jogging er laughs.
being right.” of people who come up to kids, or people bringing suit?” “Especially if they’re with
Driver is more guarded you and recognize you is their kids or supplying their The kids who are especially their father.”q
than most about revealing kind of unpredictable,” he kids with lightsabers. I love taken with Kylo give him
anything about “The Last says. that part. But they’re usu- slight pause, though.

Amazon will stream AVP beach
volleyball tour next 3 summers

By JIMMY GOLEN day could provide a boost
AP Sports Writer for a sport that emerges
Amazon is going shopping as an Olympic favorite for
for TV content, and it’s put- American TV audiences
ting some beach volleyball every four years but has
in its cart. struggled to sustain viewer-
The internet retail giant has ship. Next year’s AVP tour is
an agreement with the scheduled to make eight
AVP tour to livestream al- stops, from the sport’s long-
most every match from ev- time venues in California to
ery tournament for the next Seattle, Chicago, New York
three summers. The domes- and Austin, Texas.
tic beach circuit joins NFL Sun said numbers from the
Thursday night games and tour’s broadcasts on NBC
some men’s tennis on Am- and its own livestream
azon Prime Video, which were “pretty robust.” But
sends shows to TVs, phones, the opportunity offered
tablets, game consoles by an Amazon partnership
and other connected “was quite the no-brainer,”
screens around the world. he said. In this July 16, 2015 file photo, Carol Welcher, right, tries to get the ball over the net in front of
“When Amazon has inter- “They clearly have shown Jennifer Henderson during an Association of Volleyball Professionals qualifying tournament, with
est in anything you do, you their technological know- a view of the Manhattan skyline, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
pick up the phone,” AVP how,” Sun said. “Everything Associated Press
managing partner Don- that they’ve sought out to said the NFL streaming has and on more than 600 de- network.
ald Sun told The Associ- be, whether it is buying gro- been a success so far. It vices, Amazon said, from DeLorenzo declined to
ated Press. “The fact that cery chains to producing also will offer 37 ATP tennis TVs to mobile devices and comment on Amazon’s
they’ve made the deci- movies now, they clearly events live and on demand game consoles. In the U.S., future plans for live sports
sion, it’s definitely a positive have the bandwidth and in Britain and Ireland. one match per event — streaming.
for the AVP in terms of be- knowledge.” The AVP tournaments will the men’s or women’s final “It’s too soon to say,” he
ing on that train.” Jim DeLorenzo, the head be available in nearly ev- — will be broadcast exclu- said. “We’re in the early,
The deal announced Thurs- of sports for Amazon Video, ery country in the world sively by NBC or its sports early stages of this.”q